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Mullah Omar – Captured Finally!

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:18:10 +0000

From a Brad Thor exclusive. Mullah Omar Captured by the Pakistani government back in March of this year.

The CIA and the U.S. State Department were not informed. Only the U.S. Department of Defense in the Afigastan/Pakistan theater of operations was notified and about 10 days ago began to spread the word to other authorities in the U.S. chain of command.

For more details, please use the link below to vist Big Government dot com.

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Ref. May 10, 2010. Brad Thor (http://biggovernment.com/bthor/2010/05/10/exclusive-mullah-omar-captured/).

Interesting Theory-Oil Rig Was Attacked, not an Accident!

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:20:27 +0000

In a posting entitle “Connect The Dots”, Sean Linnane on the blog STORMBRINGER thinks that the recent sinking of the Gulf Coast oil rig was the work of Iranian Qods forces that are in Venezuela for ‘training’ purposes with Venezuela. Plus recent “war games” in the Persian Gulf showing off new Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats attacking a abandoned war ship.

Then there are the rocket explosions in Jordan to consider. The rocket attacks in Jordan/Israel and the “war games” took place on April 22nd.

Iranian troops known as Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) are deployed around the world to advance Iranian special interests. This unit has been aligned with terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, North Africa. And now in Latin America. And more than likely, elements of this gorup might have already crossed the southern border of our nation (remember – we don’t HAVE a secured border with Mexico! The drug war(s) have gone hot down along the Texas/Mexico border near El Paso).

So the theory of Iranian paramilitaries staging attacks within our own borders is not TOO far fetch to consider.

Then there is the recent explosion on April 21, 2010 of the Deepwater Horizon floating oil rig. As far as the floating oil rig goes, there are still 11 workers missing when the thing blew up. We have now past the point of likely survival out there in the open water for those poor souls. More likely, they died when the oil rig explosion took place or when it sunk.

From Wiki news: The rig was located roughly 50 miles southeast of the coast of Louisiana, and was under lease to BP since 2007. It was completing the construction of a new oil well, and was constructing a layer of cement in the well to reinforce it. This is considered dangerous, as it has the potential to produce an uncontrolled release of case, called a blowout. While the cause of the explosion has yet to be determined, a blowout is considered a possibility. end quote. I include this quote to remind myself and readers that it could very well be an industrial accident – not an act of war.

Linnane/STORMBRINGER pointed out that one of the rescued workers said that he was awaken by alarms and he had to scrambled to get to a life boat. Quote “I’ve been working offshore 25 years and I’ve never seen anything like this before.”

While Linnane is connecting dots, I’m going to wait to see if there is another such “accident” this year with a Gulf of Mexico oil rig. If such a event were to take place again… well, another front in the Terrorist War has opened and needs to be reacted too with force.

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Ref April 22, 2010. Stormbringer. by Sean Linnane. “Connect the Dots”(http://seanlinnane.blogspot.com/2010/04/connect-dots.html).

image is from the US Coast Guard

West Point Cadet Picture

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:27:16 +0000

I discovered this photograph thru a Drudge Report link.

Its priceless I think. U.S. Army cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. They were waiting for President Barrack H. Obama to give his December 1, 2009 speech on U.S. policy dealing with the war in Afghanistan.

The photograph is a Reuters picture by Shannon Stapleton. A cadet is reading a book about Kill Bin Laden, but look at the other cadet in the row in front of him – thats priceless!

“Operation Pathway” saves the UK and the USA

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:04:16 +0000

Our cousins across the pond discovered something while investigating a possible terrorist event to be launched by the al-Qaeda group in Manchester and Liverpool. The terrorist were planning a Easter bombing campaign earlier this year when the investigators discovered someone by the name of Najibullah Zazi who was in New York. Najibullah Zazi is 24 years old and was born in Paktia, Afghanistan, and has lived in the Untied States of America since the age of seven years old.

Zazi was set to be a part of a group that was to attack the New York subway using truck bombs or suicide bombers with the same explosives used on July 21st in London.

Zazi had allegedly film parts of Grand Central Station on his mobile phone and that they had bought the ingredients for the bombs.

Most of the men were arrested in Manchester and were a part of a complex network of cells directed from Pakistan. British officals admit that they uncovered Zari’s part in the planning through “intercepted communication.” The plot was unmasked after an email address that was being monitored as part of an operation known as “Operation Pathway.”

That was put into jeopardy when British counter-terrorism head Bob Quick was pictured walking into Downing Street displaying top secret documents. So “Operation Pathway” arests were moved up.

A key arrest was the arrest of a US citizen – Bryant Neal Vinas, age 26; in Pakistan back in November 2008. Bryan was calling himself “Bashir al-Ameriki” and had met with Rashid Rauf, the British al-Qaeda commander behind the trans-Atlantic bomb plot. Vinas had been in Pakistan since the year 2007 where he has admitted he was receiving training from al-Qaeda and agreed to become a suicide bomber, plotting to blow up a train on the Long Island Railroad inside Pennsylvania Station.

From there, the cells were rolled up with arrests made in Belgium in December 2008, and in April of this year when Manchester Police arrested 12 Pakistani students after intercepted emails about girls and cars that were allegedly code for a planned attack.

No bomb-making equipment was found and the men were released without being charged – but 6 of those students will be deported. They come from Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, which is the one nextdoor to Afghanistan.

Zazi returned to the US in January this year and then moved off to Aurora, Colorado where he was an airport shuttle bus driver. It is being alleged that he and others have bought large quantities of hydrogen peroxide and acetone products, which are key ingredients for homemade bombs.

On September 6th and 7th, Zazi rented a hotel suite in Aurora where tests made by the FBI later found acetone residue above the stove. It seems from intercepted communications, that he was having trouble with the formula since he was asking for the proper proportion of flour that he needed. Then he drove to New York on September 10 this year but was tipped off that New York police detectives were making inquires about him and quickly flew home.

The FBI conducted a series of raids four days later.

US Attorney General Eric Holder described the alleged plot as “One of the most serious in the United States since September 11, 2001.”

Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano said, “We can now say those that share al-Qaeda’s beliefs are now within the US itself.”

As an aside, the British discovery came at the right time – since the US had threatened to sever intelligence links over the release of the Lockerbie bomber Al Megrahi. US authorities were happy to receive this bit of intelligence that help prevent a catastrophic attack.

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REf. Telegraph.co.uk. November 9, 2009.(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6529436/British-spies-help-prevent-al-Qaeda-inspired-attack-on-New-York-subway.html)

Telegraph.co.uk. November 9, 2009. By Duncan Gardham. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6533021/British-intelligence-cracks-trans-Atlantic-terrorist-network.html)

picture was from AP.